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Alex Stroe Wants to Put 50,000 Patents Back to Work
A defense-industry operator and his inventor brother found a valuable corporate asset gathering dust. Their answer is an AI workflow that turns patent research from a scavenger hunt into a system.
Darcy Zhang Is Betting on the Signal Before the Drone
A commerce graduate and former infanteer is building Greypoint Industries around a severe test: would he trust the hardware with his own life?
Jason Liao Is Teaching AI to Notice What Text Leaves Out
Before Mundo AI began mapping tone, gesture and context for machines, Jason Liao organized gardens for bees. His career keeps returning to the same practical question: what important signal has everyone else overlooked?
Peter Bai Is Turning Market Friction Into an Execution Business
He entered exchange infrastructure at 17, joined a $12.8 billion fund a year later, and found his startup idea in a trade that was too awkward to place. Now Sequence Markets wants one market view to become one executable path.
Moody Abdul Is Building AI for the Work Around the Work
The Klarify co-founder has moved from selling enterprise software to automating meetings and, now, the back office of therapy. His bet is simple: AI earns its place by returning attention to people.
Phillip Li Is Building a Practice World for AI Agents
The former Team Canada épée fencer left UBC in his final year. Now he and a calculus-class friend are giving software agents somewhere safe to make expensive mistakes.
Weston Lim
Weston Coleman Lim is the co-founder and technical lead of Dashlabs.ai, a Manila-based software company that automates the paperwork and instrument wiring of diagnostic laboratories and clinics. He started building during the early pandemic - first an annotated map of neighborhood checkpoints, then the official national dashboard, then form-digitization work for the Philippine Red Cross - before the same team turned that scramble into a lab-software business and landed in Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch. Today Dashlabs.ai runs across more than 200 clinics in the Philippines.
Bask Gill
Bask Gill is the Co-Founder of Power (withpower.com), a San Francisco-based clinical trial platform that uses AI to match patients with clinical trials. After watching his father struggle to navigate a broken clinical trial discovery system following a multiple myeloma diagnosis, Bask co-founded Power in May 2021 alongside Brandon Li. The platform has connected over 600,000 patients to trials across 10,000+ medical conditions, with 40% being non-white patients - a deliberate focus on diversity and access. Power has raised $19M in funding including a $12M Series A in early 2024, and grown to 230 employees.
Jordan Dearsley
Jordan Dearsley is the co-founder and CEO of Vapi, the leading voice AI infrastructure platform trusted by over one million developers and powering more than one billion calls. A University of Waterloo software engineering dropout turned Y Combinator alumnus, Dearsley built Vapi out of a personal AI therapist he created for his morning walks in 2023. Under his leadership, Vapi reached a $500 million valuation in May 2026 after raising a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, with customers including Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life.